1276 – While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Song Dynasty court hold the coronation ceremony for the young prince Zhao Shi, making him Emperor Duanzong of Song.

1381 – King Richard II of England meets the leaders of Peasants’ Revolt.

1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Second Winchester – A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.

1872 – Trade unions are legalized in Canada.

1900 – Hawaii becomes a United States territory.

1900 – The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.

1907 – Norway adopts female suffrage.

1908 – Fourth German Navy Bill is passed authorizing the financing the building of another four major warships.

1919 – John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart St. John’s, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.

1934 – James J. Braddock scored one of the most upsetting victories in of his boxing career by beating John “Corn” Griffin – roughly marking the advent of his comeback to success and eventually winning World Heavyweight championship.

1937 – Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.

1959 – A group of Dominican exiles with leftist tendencies which departed from Cuba landed in the Dominican Republic with the intent of deposing Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina’s dicatorial regime. Save for four of them, all were killed and/or executed by Trujillo’s army. This feat would be the inspiration for a clandestine group that would seek to continue undermining Trujillo’s power and would be called “Movimiento Catorce de Junio” (14th of June Movement).

1962 – Anna Slesers becomes the first victim of Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler.

1962 – The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.

1962 – New Mexico Supreme Court in the case of Montoya v. Bolack, 70 N.M. 196, prohibited state and local governments from denying Indians the right to vote because they lived on a reservation.

1966 – The Vatican announces the abolition of the index librorum prohibitum (index of prohibited books), which was originally instituted in 1557.

1967 – Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus.

1976 – The trial begins at Oxford Crown Court of Donald Neilson, the killer known as the Black Panther.

1982 – Falklands War ends: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces.